NOBODY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'nowbudee
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| | Definition: | | [n] a person of no influence |
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| | Synonyms: | | cipher, cypher, nonentity |
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| | See Also: | | common man, common person, commoner, jackanapes, lightweight, pip-squeak, small fry, squirt, whippersnapper | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \No"bod*y\, n.; pl. {Nobodies}. [No, a. + body.]
1. No person; no one; not anybody.
2. Hence: A person of no influence or importance; an
insignificant or contemptible person. [Colloq.]
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| | Related Terms: | | a nobody, a nothing, cipher, common man, dud, dummy, figurehead, hollow man, insignificancy, jackstraw, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, nary one, nebbish, never a one, no man, no one, nobody on earth, nobody one knows, nobody present, nonentity, not a soul, not one, nothing, nullity, obscurity, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, scrub, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, squirt, squit, thing of naught, trifle, unknown, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero, zilch |
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